Improvement in stiffening hat-brims



` `UN'I'VlEiJ STATES PATENT ,EEICEo GEORGE H. DIMOND, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.,v

IMPRQVEMENT IN STIFFENING HAT-BRIMS.

Specification forming part of Letters I ateut No. l 76,936, dated May 2, 1876; applicationl filed March 2, 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Method of Ornamenting and lStiftening HatJBrims, of which the following is a specitication The Object of my invention is both to orna` ment and to stiften the brim ot' a hat; vwhich ends Lattziin byfstitching a cordy or braid thereon in one or more rows, as hereinatter set forth, the cord Or Abraid beingpl-accd upon either the upper or under surface-ot the brim, as may, owing to its shape or style, be most desirable. j, V 1

The accompanying drawings, which represent various methods of carrying out my invention, show portions of hat-brims stift'ened and ornamented in my improved way.

Figure l shows a double cord stitched through the binding of the hat-brim.; Fig. 2, a View of the reverse side thereof, and Fig. 6 a section therethrough on the line 'w w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows four rows of cords stitched directly on the hat-brim. Fig. 4 shows a hathrim stii'ened hy a'braid sewed ou the under side of the binding of the hat-brim. Fig. 5 shows four rows Ot' braiding sewed directly on the hat-brim, and Fig. 7 represents a transverse section therethrough on the line a' of I Fig. 5.

In order. to carry out my invention, I sew on a braid, a, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 7, byV

the ordinary sewing-machine, Or I stitch on a cord, as shown in Figs. l1, 2, 3, and 6. In the latter case, instead of stitching directly through the cord, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 7, l prefer to use the cord as the lower thread of the machine, and lto slacken the stitches of the upper thread, so as to cause the cord to lie straight upon the surface of the hat-brim.

By this simple means I am enabled to secure a great variety of ornamentation, as shown in the drawings, while stitt'ening the brim.

I am aware that the brims of hats have heretofore been sti'enedby plain stitching,

and do not, broadly, claim such method of stiti'ening; but

What I do claim as new, and ldesire to sccure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article ot' manufacture, a hat the brim of which is sti'ened by one or more rows of cordlor braid stitched thereon, as set forthf 1n testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my na-me. Y

GEORGE H. DIMOND.

Witnesses J. ALEORD HOUSE, ALFRED W. HURD. 

